J.D. Vance Says Kids ‘Become Trans’ to Get Into College

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) suggested in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan that aired Thursday that White upper- and middle-class children are incentivized to identify as transgender to gain admission to elite colleges, CNN reports.

Said Vance: “Think about the incentives. If you are a, you know, middle-class or upper middle-class White parent and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like obviously, that pathway has become a lot harder for a lot of upper middle-class kids, but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy in this country is to be trans, and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your White privilege.”

He added: “That’s the social signifier. The only one that’s available in the hyper-woke mindset is if you become gender nonbinary.”